Homestead
Open in tool →Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.
Color
#2f2c28
#2f2c28
hex
#2f2c28rgb
rgb(47, 44, 40)hsl
hsl(34, 8%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.295 0.008 75.3)Closest name: Carbon Fibre (#2e2e2e)Relative luminance 0.0256
Colors that go with #2f2c28
Amber, Blue and Blue Violet lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #2f2c28 in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #2f2c28, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #2f2c28 in 5 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Blush and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #2f2c28, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #2f2c28 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2f2c28: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #2f2c28, as the surface under it.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #2f2c28 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #2f2c28
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2f2c28 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.89:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.51:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2f2c28 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Headspacetext · #2d2c2b · Δ0.615
- Astrotext · #2c2c2c · Δ0.851
- Fenty Beautyprimary · #2d2929 · Δ1.202
- Fenty Beautytext · #2d2929 · Δ1.202
- Squarespaceprimary · #2a2a2a · Δ1.291
- Gilletteprimary · #2b2929 · Δ1.385
- Gillettetext · #2b2929 · Δ1.385
- McDonald'stext · #292929 · Δ1.623
- Raycasttext · #2f3031 · Δ1.731
- Loomtext · #292a2e · Δ1.808
- Superhumantext · #292827 · Δ1.836
- Rotten Tomatoesprimary · #2a2c32 · Δ1.944
- Readymagtext · #282828 · Δ1.986
- YouTubesecondary · #282828 · Δ1.986
Palettes built around it
Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Fonts for this mood
#2f2c28 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2f2c28
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #2f2c28 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2f2c28-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md